LESSON 1
Nature of Inquiry
Practical Research 1
After this lesson, you should be able to:
Intended 1. use some new terms you have learned
in expressing their worldviews freely;
Learning 2. explain your understanding of the
Outcomes term “inquiry”;
3. outline all the ideas you have learned
about inquiry;
4. infer about societal issues through
speculative thinking;
5. enumerate the benefits of inquiry-
based learning;
6. identify a question as simple or
complex based on the kind of thinking it
elicits from you
Activity 1: Making Words Meaningful
Directions: GROUP WORK.
Complete the bubble graph or concept
map by writing words associated with
the middle word. Be guided by the
clues in the
sentences below each graph.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
What comes to your mind upon
reading the selection’s title, Inquiry-
based Learning?
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Inquiry is a learning process that motivates you to
obtain knowledge or information about people, things,
places, or events. You do this by investigating or asking
questions about something you are inquisitive about.
It requires you to collect data, meaning, facts, and
information about the object of your inquiry, and
examine such data carefully.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
In your analysis, you execute varied thinking strategies that range from
lower-order to higher-order thinking skills such as inferential, critical,
integrative, and creative thinking. These are top-level thinking strategies
that you ought to perform in discovering and understanding the object of
your inquiry.
Engaging yourself in many ways of thinking, you come to conclude
that inquiry is an active learning process.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Putting you in a situation where you need to probe, investigate, or ask
questions to find answers or solutions to what you are worried or doubtful
about, inquiry is a problem-solving technique. Solving a problem by being
inquisitive, you tend to act like scientists who are inclined to think logically or
systematically in seeking evidence to support their conclusions about
something. Beginning with whatever experience or background knowledge
you have, you proceed like scientists with your inquiry by imagining,
speculating, interpreting, criticizing, and creating something out of what you
discovered.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Inquiry elevates your thinking power. It makes you think in
different ways, enabling you to arrive at a particular idea or
understanding that will motivate you to create something
unique, new, or innovative for your personal growth as well as for
the world. Inquisitive thinking allows you to shift from one level
of thought to another. It does not go in a linear fashion; rather, it
operates in an interactive manner.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Solving a problem, especially social issues, does not only
involve yourself but other members of the society too. Hence,
inquiry, as a problem-solving technique, includes cooperative
learning because any knowledge from members of the society
can help to make the solution. Whatever knowledge you have
about your world bears the influence of your cultural,
sociological, institutional, or ideological understanding of the
world. (Badke 2012)
